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Aleister Crowley somewhat famously gave himself asthma doing some fairly extreme pranayama, which led to him using heroin medicinally which led to him using heroin somewhat less medicinally for the duration of his life.

Yes, the guy was known for going big on most things he did. But it is worth throwing in the asterisk.



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